Apple faces two threats: one from hackers looking for ways to steal financial information, and another from regulators interested in ensuring that information gleaned from health monitoring devices stays private.

With Apple Pay and Smartwatch, a Privacy Challenge

The cereal business has been in steady decline for a decade as consumers opt for healthier options or food easier to eat on the run in the morning.

Cereals Begin to Lose Their Snap, Crackle and Pop

The Internet giant is bringing e-commerce into the homes of China’s rapidly expanding middle class.

Alibaba Is Bringing Luxury, Fast, to China’s Middle Class

Microsoft’s acquisition of Minecraft would be an acknowledgment that gaming is central to many people’s lives, serving as an engaging mode of entertainment or merely a time killer.

Microsoft Sees More Than Fun in a Game Like Minecraft

President Obama on Wednesday night may have ensured that he will pass his successor a volatile and incomplete war, just as he inherited one when he took office.

New Military Campaign Extends a Legacy of War

As President Obama prepares to send the United States on what could be a yearslong military campaign, American intelligence agencies have concluded that the group poses no immediate threat to the United States.

Struggling to Gauge ISIS Threat, Even as U.S. Prepares to Act

“Bootycandy,” Robert O’Hara’s searing and sensationally funny comedy, looks at attitudes toward gays in black culture.

This Love Dares to Speak Its Name, Explicitly

In chronicling the end of a marriage, “The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby” crosses a landscape mined with loss, secrets and questions of identity.

When Sorrow Is Deeper Than Love

In “Bird People,” a businessman and a maid at an airport hotel abruptly seek escapes from unhappy lives.

The Void Beckons: It’s Time to Leap

Many Americans agree that ISIS is a threat to the United States, but many wonder whether the country should edge toward another war.

Weary of War, but Favoring Airstrike Plan

The Federal Reserve has used the unemployment rate to indicate whether monetary policy should be tightened, but at least one economist argues that unemployment alone doesn’t tell the whole story.

Jobless Rate May Be a Flawed Indicator for Fed Policy

Henry Kissinger’s “World Order” brings together history, geography and modern politics in considering how to balance the competing desires of nations.

As the World Turns

Joe Klein reviews Lawrence Wright’s minute-by-minute account of the 1978 Camp David peace talks between Israel and Egypt.

Elusive Peace

Francis Fukuyama chronicles international political history to define liberal democracy and discover how and why it develops.

Global Warning

Court documents shed light on Yahoo’s unsuccessful challenge of federal requests for warrantless surveillance of its foreign users.

Government’s Threat of Daily Fine for Yahoo Shows Aggressive Push for Data

Ukraine, which receives more than half of its supply from Russia, is looking to reduce its need amid a price dispute and military action with Russian separatists.

With Gas Cut Off, Ukraine Looks West

A committee hearing is scheduled to examine the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s execution and enforcement of safety laws, as well as its handling of the crisis that has engulfed General Motors.

Senate Hearing to Examine N.H.T.S.A.’S. Recall Response

In “Juárez: A Documentary Mythology,” at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, actors recite the accounts of residents who have witnessed that border’s town’s cycle of violence.

Weaving Their Tapestry of Murder and Mayhem

Quotation of the Day for Thursday, September 11, 2014.

Quotation of the Day for Thursday, September 11, 2014

Corrections appearing in print on September 11, 2014.

Corrections: September 11, 2014

On state news media, several told of receiving money for producing positive articles, giving details of a practice said not to be uncommon in China.

Journalists in China Describe Extortion

Regulators imposed penalties totaling $46 million, saying the automakers conspired to keep prices high on cars and replacement parts.

China Fines Volkswagen and Chrysler for Antitrust Violations

The novelist will tour ten American cities in September, including Boston, Houston, San Francisco and Portland, Ore.

David Mitchell Coming to New York for ‘Bone Clocks’ Tour

Justin Elizabeth Sayre is busy, as a writer of “2 Broke Girls” and host of the monthly variety stage show, “The Meeting*.”

Hitting Hollywood With Wit and Hankie

The side curtain air bags in CrewMax and Double Cab trucks might not deploy properly because of a panel that was installed incorrectly.

Toyota Recalls 130,000 Tundra Pickups for Air Bag Defect

Robert Stanley Crewe was an American songwriter, dancer, singer, manager, and record producer. Crewe co-wrote and produced a string of Top 10 singles with Bob Gaudio for the Four Seasons.

September 11, 2014

Headlines from September 11, 2014

With Apple Pay and Smartwatch, a Privacy Challenge

Cereals Begin to Lose Their Snap, Crackle and Pop

Alibaba Is Bringing Luxury, Fast, to China’s Middle Class

Microsoft Sees More Than Fun in a Game Like Minecraft

New Military Campaign Extends a Legacy of War

Billboard 200

My Everything

Moonshine In The Trunk

Promise To Love: Album IV

Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix Vol. 1

In The Lonely Hour

Notable Deaths

Historical Context for September 11, 2014